Free Record Shop in the SAP jungle: Horrorrrr!

Everybody knows horror stories about SAP implementations which drove companies near bankrupcy. But I must admit I started to believe they were urban legends: the last story I had heard about in the press was in 2002: the car dealer Cardoen lost about 1 Mln. € due to a failed SAP implementation.

But look, today, the SAP monster is back. The dutch company Free Record Shop announces a nett loss of € 795,000 which it attributes for problems with the implementation of SAP. The management estimates the total cost of the implementation at € 3 Mln. …